World English/es and ELT.

The main aim of this chapter is to provide a general account of a teacher-development session dedicated to the integration World Englishes (WE) into the English syllabuses. This session was carried out during the course that is the object of the second part of this book. The Introduction explains the rationale behind a critical stance toward mainstream language education, which is based on the concept of ELF awareness in English language teaching (ELT), and on Dewey and Pineda’s (in print) definition of ELF informed pedagogy. These notions are then extended to WE. Sections 1 and 2 describe the session plan, the content and the activities that where designed for this component of the teacher development course mentioned above. Finally, an overall assessment of this experience is provided in the Conclusions